Attack from the other side of the flatscreen!

Lo'Seqqo rider detail.

Work continues apace.

Companion book to the War for Edadh game also coming along, with details of the world egtting edited.

More conventions attended. Dragonmeet was the last one which went particularly well for us.

Christmas approaches. This is the deadline to get all the card art and designs done and dusted for the Nuko'yr War Deck and Art of Conflict deck. Which means a February release. That'd be cool, eh?

Ooohhh! Attack from the Aethereal..

Thought i'd have a go at doing a Vaechi 'realistic' style. So here we are, a Woods Canopy Vaechi made of leaves and catkins.

Leaves for hair and leaves for hands and catkins for tails, but it does look like a couple of the catkins could be arms and hands doesn't it? Fluffy hands. And either is fine. maybe it's both? (Versatile little suckers that they are.)

Well, nuff said.

IndieCon Attack from the Demo table!

Well Indiecon starts today, running for three days. New Milton is the place on the South Coast. check out the site at www.indiecon.net for details.

Last year was its first year which makes this year.. its ... um .. second?

All good stuff, well worth the visit.

Show your support for the Indies! They're the true future of the genre.

Vaechi Attack From Above!

Here we go, are you ready for another Terrain card? We have Land and Water already and now it's the turn of Canopy.

We decided the Canopy needed to be its own element per se, on par with Land, Water and Air, at least interms of Terrain.

So here is the new Vaechi image i knocked up today .. well okay a bit of it. The card itself is coming along. I'm sketching the final design element this very eve.

Thought you might like to see ..

Lo'Jou Attack from the Side!

Thought you might like to see the fruits of my first foray into photoshop...

While not my favourite of the few i've done so far, it's the latest, so as i finished it i grabbed this shot to post here. The final image will be alot smaller, which is why the teeth have been left to stand out.

It's for the reverse of a new troop card - for the Nuko deck to come out in February for the game War for Edadh.

Hope you like it.

It's of a Lo'Jou warrior, which previous posts may have allowed you to guess.

Needless to say i'm enjoying getting to grips with photoshop and wish i'd got it a long time ago.

Lo'Jou Attack from Above!

Work is underway now on the final stages of the Nuko Faction Cards, with illus and such getting wrapped one after the other.

Release of the expansion is some way away of course (the New Year) but then it all needs to be wrapped and ready to print a good two months in advance of that release date.

I'm currently putting the final tweaks to the Nuko Troop card design, ably helped by our Design I/C whose eye catches all.

Illu-wise, it's those lil' Lo'Jou, one of the two species that compose the vast majority of the Nuko'yr culture (with other Edadh species either not showing or in very few and random numbers when they do). The Troop type of this particular card use clubs in melee and atlatls in ballistic and charge. As they have four arms, you can imagine that their rate of fire is greater.

The whole tactical approach to battle for the Nuko differs from the Ang and Dzaa (as featured in the base set) and they tend to operate at charge and melee, though these guys are an exception. They still like to do the 'attack from the Canopy above' thing of course.

After the Conflict comes ..?

As you may know already, the expansion that follows the Art of Conflict decks is for the Nuko. AoC gave the Ang and Dzaa more Troops and Stratagems amongst other things, adding to the Ang and Dzaa armies that appear in the starter set - War for Edadh: the Beginning.

The art progression posts (scroll down a couple of posts to see) showed a serentine species known as the Lo-Seqqo. They do not have a verbal language of their own that anyone can understand but themselves, if they have one at all. So how did they become known as the Lo-Seqqo?

The Lo-Jou live amongst the Nuko, alongside the Lo-Seqqo. They have their own language, if basic in it's scope, but have learned the languages of other cultures to enable trade, spying etc. This is how the Nuko'yr got to naming themselves.

The Lo-Jou are four-armed and make the canopy their habitat, which is not exclusive, being no stranger to the ground.

There are many sub-species of Lo-Jou and probably they are the most diverse of all Edadh species.